TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Southland Times, Issue 22052, 27 June 1933, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE TIMES

A Circular House. “Psychological Architecture” was discussed at a dinner of the London Lyceum Club. Miss Crace Cope, the first woman member of the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, described the perfect house from the point of view of psychology as a circular house. In such a house, she said, the wastage of health, both mental and physical, would be practically nil. Enormous energy and nerve power would be saved by allowing the eye to dwell on curves instead of on straight lines. Houses must inculcate an atmosphere of harmony. The ideal window was one which reached to the ceiling. More attention ought to be paid to the design of the windows of nurseries, as the eyesight of many children had been ruined by the wrongly-designed windows of the past. If homes were built on the right lines they would have the effect of counteracting some of the most common causes of failure to-day such as a sense of inferiority, lack of selfconfidence, and fear. More psychology was wanted in the kitchen. There was no reason why the common ordinary things of everyday use should not be designed in a beautiful form just as easily as they were now produced in ugly form.

Dublin Philosophy. “We have reached a stage in social development in which the feelings of the ordinary man in the street are at once raised to international importance,” says the Dublin Review in an article which has the Test cricket controversy in mind. “Time was when his feelings were again and again corrected before they played their part in national affairs. They made their way slowly up the several levels of education and classes of society to be met at the top by opposite feelings arising from different circumstances, and what appeared at the end as the expression of the nation’s will was something very different from what most individuals as individuals thought. Even to-day something like that happens in all co-opera-tion that is worth-while having. Modern rapidity, and, most of all, the modern Press, have made all that impossible.

... An individual can control his temper and his feelings, and his actions for the most part have little importance in the long run. But once the will of a nation has received public expression it is very hard to go back on it. Palmerston used to give that as the reason why democracies would always fail in diplomacy. Furthermore, the actions of a nation lead to a chain of consequences for the lives of individuals, the end of which no man can see. And yet it seems that nowadays there is no guarantee that the will of the nation will be an improvement on the passing feelings of the individual who happens to take an exaggerated interest in games. On the contrary, there is every likelihood that it will not. Need we look further for the cause of many of our troubles?”

The Dominion Meteorologist last night issued the following information: A depression is crossing the Dominion to-day with its centre to the southwards. It has, however, lost intensity, while a secondary has formed over Tasmania. An anti-cyclone covers the greater part of Australia. Winds moderate to strong northerly, backing to westerly and in places to south-west-erly. Seas in New Zealand waters rather rough to rough in the Eastern Tasman Sea, moderate to strong winds between south-west and west prevailing with moderate to rather rough seas. Weather changeable generally with scattered rain, more especially in districts with a westerly aspect. Temperatures becoming cooler.

A Gisborne Press Association telegram states: The homestead belonging to Lawrence Jef. Blake, of nine rooms at Waingake was totally destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning, only a few personal effects being saved.

The mission which is being conducted by the Salvation Army was continued yesterday, Adjutant Tong addressing a large audience last evening on “Where Art Thou?” He dealt chiefly with God’s call to Adam. To-night the adjutant will speak on “The Joy In The City.”

“I have criticized the right-hand rule before, because in many cases it is almost impossible to observe it, but the authorities insist upon it, and I have to observe the law,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate's Court in a civil claim involving a breach of this regulation. “The proper rule should be that of giving way to traffic approaching from the left, instead of on the right, but the authorities have enforced the law for so long that they cannot change it.”

The weekly meeting of the W.E.A. literature class was held at Everybody’s, Tay street, last evening, when Mr I. L. Petrie presided over a good attendance. A. A. Milne’s 3-act play “Success” was read. This showed Milne in his Barrie attitude, and introduces more than a suggestion of fantasy. The play was very much enjoyed. Those who took part were Mrs H. L. Godward, Misses P. L. Hannah, I. Topping, V. Mclntosh, A. Matheson and E. M. Reid, Messrs F. Bishop, S. G. August, R. Anderson, G. Swift and M. O’Toole. Next Monday evening play-reading will be continued with J. M. Barrie’s “The Admirable Crighton.”

Some interesting information about the New Zealand products which were shown at the British Empire Fair at Hong Kong last month is contained in the South China Morning Post. After recalling the partiality of the Prince of Wales for toheroa soup, which was one of the exhibits, the newspaper says: “The famous Stewart Island oysters will also be on show. Stewart Island is the largest oyster bed in the world and carefully guarded by inspectors to ensure the perfect health of the oysters. . . . The Oysterine soup powder is another famous product of New Zealand, and well known for its perfect flavour. The food value of one tin is equal to a sack of oysters.”

The mildness of the winter in the Tauranga district is evidenced by the fact that a thrush is hatching four eggs in its nest near Te Puna, states the Tauranga correspondent of the New Zealand Herald. A further sign is that a resident of Tauranga this week dug new potatoes from his garden.

There was a very satisfactory attendance for the weekly euchre tournament at Bluff under the auspices of the local R.S.A. on Saturday evening. Play was under the capable supervision of Messrs T. Finnerty and W. Gilson. The winners for the night were Mr R. Waddel 1, Mrs W. Millar 2, Mr T. Walters 3. The aggregate prize for the first round went to Mrs E. Parsons and the second to Mr L. Mortimer.

Careless marking out of areas by men taking gold claims is often disclosed in cases that come before the Warden’s Court, says a West Coast newspaper. Even experienced miners have shown inaptitude in such matters, with the result that they find somebody else jumping their claim, and they are put to considerable expense. One applicant stated that he had tied bogus papers on pegs as a "blind.”

Foreigners from the Southern European countries of Yugoslavia, Italy and Greece, who arrived in the Dominion in large numbers several years ago, are not coming to New Zealand so freely at present (says the New Zealand Herald). In 1932, only 27 Yugoslavs and five Italians arrived, while there were no Greeks at all. Altogether, 90 foreigners arrived to take up permanent residence in the Dominion, against 1482 British subjects.

“If you are ever going to travel in Egypt, I advise you to take nothing but your personal belongings,” Mrs E. G. Hogg told members of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Federation of University women last week. Egypt seemed the most difficult country in which to satisfy the Customs authorities, and all superfluous luggage cost the traveller dear. It was necessary also to have large supplies of small change, for the natives were very badly paid for all classes of work and depended largely upon the tips they received from tourists. Not one man, but three, would carry a suitcase, and they would all expect to receive tips.

See Railway. Department’s advertisement in this issue regarding cheap fares by Dunedin-Invercargill Excursion on Sunday, July 2. —Advt.

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